Jabiru 2200 Engine Failure - Forced Landing on the Beach

[duarte07]

Thanks for your post, ZK King. It looks as if the wet sand where you land is quite harder than the one in the beach where I landed ...

[ZK Kiwi]

It certainly would be firmer than the one you had to land on!. The Beach is black titanomagnetite (Titanium - Iron ore) sand which is really dense and settles very firmly. Its an ideal landing surface and really good for teaching the basic techniques. It is actually smoother than many of our airfields!

[duarte07]

One thing I can tell is that this forced landing was one of the smoothets in my life. I almost didn't feel the touchdown ... It really had to be smooth, otherwise I would probably capsize ...